KFON Connectivity to Schools in Kerala

The Kerala Fiber Optic Network (KFON) project aims to bridge the digital divide to a large extent by making internet access a basic right to citizens and enable the state government’s vision to provide free internet access to economically backward households. The KFON project, upon implementation, will connect more than 30,000 government offices and educational institutions and equip them with scalable bandwidth from 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps on demand. As part of High-Tech scheme, broadband connectivity provided to secondary schools is now being converted to KFON connectivity for implementing various e Governance and monitoring activities. Kerala State IT Infrastructure Limited (KSITIL) is the implementing agency of the project and has provided KFON connectivity to around 60% of schools and the work is in progress in the remaining schools. A Manual configuration is necessary in each school with the network switch/router/ PC to get an internet access. KITE has prepared a help file for configuration of end offices (schools) and the assigned IP address list.